Past Events
Adam Grant and Sheryl Sandberg ("Speaking While Female") recently observed: "research shows that when it comes to leadership skills, although men are more confident, women are more competent." Following up on a symposium on Asian Models of Leadership centered on Confucius in October 2014, SDSU will focus on women leaders of Asia, past and present.
Eric Chang will be presenting the second of his two lectures, “Political Corrupting in Taiwan,” which aims to discuss the historical practice of political corruption in Taiwan. The lecture will begin by reviewing how the nationalist party’s reliance on the patron-client alliance with the local factions and their huge endowment in party assets contributed to pervasive corruption before Taiwan democratized, then discuss how the Democratic Progressive Party won the 2000 Taiwanese presidential election with a clean imagine but quickly followed the footsteps of the KMT toward corrupt politics, and hope to find out whether democratization in Taiwan, buttressed by institutionalized political competition and increased freedom of press, helps reduce levels of corruption.
China's "economic miracle," arms buildup, and diplomatic initiatives have all profoundly reshaped its position vis a vis Taiwan. In the wake of shifting power relations, and after more than a decade of escalating cross-Strait polarization fed by growing nationalism on either side of the Strait, there has been since the late 2000s an historic rapprochement between Taiwan and mainland China. A selection of the most outstanding scholars in the world engaged in these issues will meet to reexamine the current state of China-Taiwan relations and the role of US strategies and commitments in the complicated and often contentious cross-Straits relationship.
The Trammell & Margaret Crow Collection of Asian Art is currently hosting the exhibition, Fundamental and Superfluous: The Arts of Life in China, Japan, and Korea.
This exhibition examines works of art from the Museum’s permanent collection that present artistic imagery and auspicious symbolism as design elements embedded within sculptural objects with a functional purpose.
Kenneth Chan of the University of Northern Colorado will present on Hong Kong director Stephen Fun's two-part 3D martial arts extravaganza, Tai Chi Zero and Tai Chi Hero.
Poetry reading and reception with GW Professor Jonathan Chaves.
The Institute of East Asian Studies at UC Berkeley presents a symposium on recent research and thinking about guanxi.